Chapter 111: Mourning Soldiers
"Star Zero Master Mother has been killed, and you and other incompetent people are still waiting to be killed!" A cold voice pierced through the noise around the battlefield like a sharp sword, resounding throughout the courtyard of the Star Zero Family's official mansion.
I couldn't help but stop diving, my scalp tingling, and my heart was in chaos.
Fake! It must be a rumor to shake the morale of the soldiers of the Fourth Family! But...... The sound seemed to come from above the tallest stalagmite building in the center of the courtyard, and as I understood it, it was supposed to be the temple of the Star Zero family.
Even if it was surrounded by superior forces, it secretly sent the most elite commandos to infiltrate the raid, but the fourth family had mastered the spiritual power and was known as a powerful family whose true strength was second only to the first family, was the Star Zero Master Mother actually attacked and killed in such a short time? Could it be that the strength of the first family is so strong!
The bad news caused the soldiers defending by the Star Zero Family to be confused, and the attackers, whose morale was suddenly high, took the opportunity to tear a few holes in the defensive line, but they were not able to further expand the results.
The defenders, who learned the bad news of the death of their own housemother, fell into chaos, but suddenly burst out with a terrifying momentum later, and launched a counterattack one by one without fear of life and death.
…… Odd! How so! According to common sense, the side where the mistress died, except for the nobles who would choose to continue to resist or flee for their own safety because they would be slaughtered, civilian soldiers could save their lives as long as they gave up resistance, and often surrendered voluntarily when defeat was assured. Why is it that the losing side is now all like they are dying?
I'm poking out in a corner to watch the battle and think that the vanguard of the First Family's attack has been routed by the Fourth Family's soldiers! It is worthy of being called a powerful family second only to the First Family in true strength, and in terms of individual combat power alone, the soldiers of the Fourth Family are not inferior to their enemies, or even better! Almost instantly, half of the enemy forwards engaged in close combat were down, leaving the soldiers of the First Family who served as the vanguard to fight and retreat, and the soldiers behind them also took the initiative to retreat, making room for their companions in front of them to retreat.
Naturally, the defenders would not let go of the retreating enemy, and many soldiers left the stalagmite bunkers and pursued the past.
Something was wrong, the soldiers of the First Family were defeated but not chaotic, and they could echo and support each other when they fought and retreated, but the pursuing defenders were lured away from their original positions, stretching the line and destroying their cooperation.
In the relatively open area in front of the courtyard gate, the reserves of the First Family were assembled.
Large, hideous-looking carnivorous lizards spit out bifurcated tongues, knights on their backs draped in black chain mail, family crests on their chests with a hazy glow like demonic fire, and spears resting flat on the stand in front of their saddles.
Hundreds of lizard cavalry silently charged the defenders. The sticky pads on the soles of the lizard's feet make them see obstacles like flat ground, and the terrain that is not suitable for cavalry charges is a factor they don't need to consider.
Whether it is the defenders who rush out, or the soldiers who have not had time to avoid their own family, as long as they stand in the way of the cavalry charge, they can only be easily pierced through the body by the sharp spear of 3 meters long, and then thrown away by the impact of the riding lizard.
A dense string sound sounded, and the defenders behind raised their crossbows to shoot at the lizard cavalry, but the salvo was not ideal, and only a dozen cavalrymen and their mounts fell.
The power of the crossbow is too small, and the range is too short to guarantee the accuracy beyond the standard range, and the chain mail that the First Family has equipped for its lizard cavalry is undoubtedly a magical armor with excellent defensive power. If it weren't for the toxins on the crossbows, the number of cavalry they could injure would have been in the single digits.
The crossbow will be rewound the year after it is fired, but the cavalry that rushes over will not give the enemy this chance. When the lizard cavalry is about to storm the defenders' lines, harvesting their lives with their spears. Behind the defenders, a line of soldiers took the initiative to stand out, holding crystal swords in their hands, wearing armor inlaid with hedrons, standing tall in front of their companions, fearlessly facing the charging lizard cavalry.
They want to block the cavalry? No way? In the face of a frontal charge of cavalry, even the heavy infantry defending in a dense formation was not enough. What's more, it's such a sparse row of people standing.
The lizard cavalry was not far from the defenders who had come out to die, and within a few breaths they were making contact, and the cavalry adjusted the horizontal position of their spears, pointing their spears straight at the warriors who were blocking the carriage with their arms in the way. But...... The result was not as expected, the spear slipped from the hands of the cavalry at the last moment when it was about to stab the opponent in the chest!
Those who come forward are all psychic warriors! The group cast a psychic blast in front of them! But they didn't have a good time, in order to get as many lizard cavalry as possible into the range of the Psychic Blast, they only cast the Psychic Blaster at the last moment, and the stunned Lizard Rider dropped his spear and the lizard was unable to continue running, but they still crashed into it in a straight line due to inertia. The cavalry and the mounts, together with their equipment, weighed about 350 kilograms or more, knocking the psychic warrior in front of them like a bowling ball hitting a bottle.
Only the lizard cavalry, which accounted for about one-third of the total number in front, was shocked by the psychic blast, but it affected all the cavalry. The frightened riders in front could not continue to run and charge, because inertia carried the knights on their backs to fall forward and slide, while the lizard cavalry behind maintained a state of charge, and under the high-speed movement, most of them only had time to move the spears pointing forward, so as not to poke a hole in the companions in front, but there was no chance to turn around, and they crashed straight into it, rolling into a ball. And they have become an obstacle for their companions behind them, causing a series of rear-end traffic accidents!
The soldiers of the fourth family took the opportunity to rush into the cavalry queue and wantonly slaughtered the cavalry in front of them who were shocked by the psychic blast and lost the ability to resist, and the lizard cavalry of the first family was the elite of the elite after all, because the belt on the saddle of the riding lizard tied the cavalry and the riding lizard together, and none of the cavalrymen who turned on their backs were thrown off their mounts, and the cavalry who was not shocked behind was choked enough, but they still quickly urged the riding lizard under the seat to get up.
They wisely did not come to the rescue of their comrades, who had lost their ability to resist in front of them and were being slaughtered by the defenders, avoiding hand-to-hand combat with the infantry in front of them, and pulling back to regroup their ranks. The abandoned companions will be used as decoys to lure the defenders in, and they will have a chance to charge again and win.
However, dozens of large beasts jumped from the huge stalagmites around them and pounced into the middle of the ranks of the lizard cavalry, ruining their chances!